Proverbs 8:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

Proverbs 8:22 —

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Cross-References

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Colossians 1:17
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
John 1:1-2
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. …
Proverbs 3:19
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Psalms 104:24
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Job 28:26-28
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-31)

That it is an intelligent and divine person that here speaks seems very plain, and that it is not meant of a mere essential property of the divine nature, for Wisdom here has personal properties and actions; and that intelligent divine person can be no other than the Son of God himself, to whom the principal things here spoken of wisdom are attributed in other scriptures, and we must explain scrip…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22-31. Strictly, God’s attributes are part of Himself. Yet, to the poetical structure of the whole passage, this commendation of wisdom is entirely consonant. In order of time all His attributes are coincident and eternal as Himself. But to set forth the importance of wisdom as devising the products of benevolence and power, it is here assigned a precedence. As it has such in divine, so should it…